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Majorana Anyon Composites in Magneto-Photoluminescence Spectra of Natural Quantum Hall Puddles

Version 1 : Received: 22 February 2022 / Approved: 23 February 2022 / Online: 23 February 2022 (12:12:12 CET)

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Mintairov, A.M.; Lebedev, D.V.; Vlasov, A.S.; Blundell, S.A. Majorana Anyon Composites in Magneto-Photoluminescence Spectra of Natural Quantum Hall Puddles. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 1016. Mintairov, A.M.; Lebedev, D.V.; Vlasov, A.S.; Blundell, S.A. Majorana Anyon Composites in Magneto-Photoluminescence Spectra of Natural Quantum Hall Puddles. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 1016.

Abstract

In magneto-photoluminescence (magneto-PL) spectra of quasi-two dimensional islands (quantum dots) having seven electrons and Wigner-Seitz radius rs~1.5, we revealed a suppression of magnetic field (B) dispersion, paramagnetic shifts and jumps of the energy of the emission components for filling factors >1 (B<10 T). Additionally, we observed B-hysteresis of the jumps and a dependence of all these anomalous features on rs. Using a theoretical description of the magneto-PL spectra and an analysis of the electronic structure of these dots based on the single-particle Fock-Darwin spectrum and many-particle configuration-interaction calculations, we show that these observations can be described by the rs-dependent formation of the anyon (magneto-electron) composites (ACs) involving single-particle states having non-zero angular momentum and that the anyon states observed involve Majorana modes (MMs), including zero-B modes having equal number of vortexes and anti-vortexes, which can be considered as Majorana anyons. We show that the paramagnetic shift corresponds to a destruction of the equilibrium self-formed ~5/2 AC by the external magnetic field and that the jumps and their hysteresis can be described in terms of Majorana qubit states controlled by B and rs. Our results show a critical role of quantum confinement in the formation of magneto-electrons and implies the liquid-crystal nature of fractional quantum Hall effect states, Majorana anyon origin of the states having even , i.e., composite fermions, which provide new opportunities for topological quantum computing.

Keywords

quantum dots; magneto-photoluminescence; fractional quantum Hall effect; anyons; Majorana modes; topological quantum computing

Subject

Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics

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